Frank Lloyd Wright

BROADACRE CITY

Broadacre City was a plan for a decentralized community that Wright promoted endlessly from the 1930s to his death in 1959. He believed that everyone should have at least an acre of land and the right to beautiful housing and carefully organized cities that were spread out, not like the congestion of places like New York, a town he insulted more than once. Broadacre was shown publically for the first time April 15 to May 15, 1935 at the Industrial Arts Exposition in Rockefeller Center, New York. It consisted of architectural models and a full model 12 by 12 feet in size, of Broadacre City itself, complete with tiny forests, homes, schools, factories, farms, and more!

Wright handwritten note on verso

Date: 1935

Title: Broadacre City, 1935. Model Homes.

Description: Photographed by Dan Keller, Seidman Photo Service, New York. Caption on verso, handwritten by Frank Lloyd Wright reads "Collateral Detail Mofel: A Two Car House, Two Minimum Houses and a Medium House." Verification, Kelmscott Galleries; Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 1990, page 41 item 143; Additional analysis "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City" De Long 1998, page 29. As with the 1938 and 1948 Architectural Forum issues which Wright designed, wrote and coordinated, details such as captions and photo selection were handled by Wright. Published in Architectural Record, April 1935 page 247; Junior Red Cross Journal, Feb 1936, page 137.

Size: Original 8 x 10 vintage silver gelatin photograph

0393.02.0107

Wright handwritten note on verso

Date: 1935

Title: Broadacre City, 1935. Model Bridge.

Description: Photographed by Dan Keller, Seidman Photo Service, New York. Caption on verso, handwritten by Frank Lloyd Wright reads "Bridge Over Great Arterial Right of Way, Which Consists of Many Lanes of Speed Traffic Above, Monorail Speed Trains In the Middle, and Truck and Traffic on Lower Side Lanes. Within the Highway Structures are Storage Facilities for Raw Material." Verification, Kelmscott Galleries; Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 1990, page 41 item 143; Additional analysis "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City" De Long 1998, page 29. As with the 1938 and 1948 Architectural Forum issues which Wright designed, wrote and coordinated, details such as captions and photo selection were handled by Wright. Published in Architectural Record, April 1935 page 246.

Size: Original 8 x 10 vintage silver gelatin photograph

0393.03.0107

Date: 1963

Title: Broadacre City, City Dweller’s Unit

Description: Broadacre City, City Dweller’s Unit, Broadacre City Model, 1963. Caption pasted to verso: "City Dweller’s Unit, Broadacre City Model from 'The Future of Architecture' by Frank Lloyd Wright. A Mentor paperback. March 1963, Credit Roy E. Peterson." Published in "The Future of Architecture" Wright, 1953, p270. Photographed by Roy E. Peterson.

Size: Original 4 x 6.2 B&W photograph.

1565.24.0111

Date: 1995

Title: Frank Lloyd Wright: The Phoenix Papers. Volume I: Broadacre City (Published by the Herberger Center for Design Excellence, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Arizona State University ; Tucson, Ariz. Tempe, AZ . Distributed by the University of Arizona Press.)

Author: Project Editor Zygas, Paul K.

Description: "Thirty-five years after his death, interest in his creative work, accomplished over a period of more than seventy years, is at an all-time high..." A compilation of essays from a symposium hosted by Arizona State University on February 2, 1991, and an exhibition February 2, 1991 to present (1994). Authors include: Gary Herberger, John Meunier, H. Allen Brooks, K. Paul Zygas, Peter G. Rowe, John Sergeant, Lionel March, Grady Gammage, Jr., Ignacio San Martin, Frederick Steiner, Max Underwood, and an interview with Cornelia Brierly. (First Edition)

Size: 7 x 14

Pages: Pp 162

ST#: 1995.59.0112